[Lee Stewart]

Lucie Arnaz was on the short list to play Betty Rizzo, leader of the Pink Ladies. But her mother, Lucille Ball, got angry when Paramount insisted that Lucie do a screen test. "I used to own that studio," Ball reportedly growled at the movie's producers. "My daughter's not doing a screen test." (Actually, Lucy had owned Desilu, which Paramount acquired.) Arnaz refused to try out for the role, and Stockard Channing got it instead